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'Face' captured in Northern Lights
A photographer trying to capture the Northern Lights in Canada was astonished to see a face in one of his pictures.
Jonathan Tucker, 25, snapped the image in Marsh Lake in Yukon, Canada with a 30 second exposure on his camera.
It was only later that he noticed "strong facial features" such as a nose, chin and smiling mouth among the swirling green lights.
The spectacular light display lasted for an hour but Mr Tucker, from Yukon, only spotted the face when looking at his photographs later in the day.
He said: "When you look at this photo you can certainly see very strong facial features like the nose, eye and chin.
"The face even looks like it has hair and to me it looks like it's smiling. I was shocked. This is very rare."
what do you think?
Mike Lewinski
Pareidolia! <a href="http://www.skepdic.com/pareidol.html" rel='nofollow'>http://www.skepdic.com/pareidol.html</a>
eastonandrea
Yeah i get what your saying (i googled it) :Seeing faces in clouds, on the surface of other worlds and on pieces of toast is not unusual; we've probably all looked up and have been excited and surprised to clearly recognize a face or, perhaps, even horses and other creatures sketched in the skies. It's a psychological phenomenon called "pareidolia." And we all share this ability because of our mind or brain's predilection to turn vague or random stimulus into something recognizable. Humans seem to be meaning making machines ? we try and impose meaning even when presented with chaos.
Gavin Nellis
someone has a very good imagination on orange
Derek Porter
If you look hard enough at anything, you can always find a face - clouds, wallpaper, stone wall and even a pile of manure, which is just about what this story amounts to.
Kieran P
That's because our brains are obsessed with faces - science has proven it
Graham Barnes
Flash! Whoo hooo- master of the universe!
eastonandrea
The Northern lights are a wonder in their own right without trying to "see extra's" Fantastic imagination mate we can all "see" the face or look at it differently and we could see other shapes like an eagle soaring or the face of a dodo bird if you look at the whole shape minus the front bit the list could go on.
James J. Thomas
i saw this really crazy/ evil looking skull face once in the Aurora but of corse i did not have my cam
Gavin Nellis
yesterday it was princess diana in a window now faces in the northrn lights, orange really are trying to fill the space on the pages rather than reducing the pages and giving us less rubbish
Douglas Thorburn
No biggie to me ....and actually I see 2 faces in that picture ... one on the far right in profile like the head of a comet and then one behind that in the middle looking straight at us. ... but I'm into art and see faces and bodies everywhere in nature.
bahn ghit
there's an ass at the other end.
Hany Hanna
And not just any face. It's Ziggy Stardust.
TheSonOfLiberty
Gavin, how did you not see the image of Princess Diana in the other photo? That was one of the most blatantly obvious images I have ever seen, and it truly didn't leave much to the imagination such as how you're describing it.
gemmawh1
I can't see a face - all I see is a blur!
RocketDog6
3:32pm on 18/1/2012
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